Trigger
from the Dutch trekken "to pull"
the rope is attached to your spine - your spine
fleshless taken exposed lost tail that it is
you are a dog on a chain you are
a dog sniffing the crotches
of every man in the place
from Latin catena it was always just a link
to be held closed soldered
silver shadowing the fence hides a monster - you
are the monster
here a needle thread floss make a wish
a bullet of yarn a trigger of hemp
beads of silk and bone the teeth of every dead soul
that burned across this earth
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19 February 2017
25 September 2010
Scratch-off
Happy Anniversary to me!
Starting today, every poem will be written as it is posted. So each poem will be unedited and posted as soon as it is done.
Wish me luck.
And be kind!
For the rest of the month I'm going to write a poem about a historical event that happened on that day as well as using the word of the day for the title.
Scratch-off (the last Magdelene Asylum closes 1996) 9/25
This is how it happens :
These nuns sell some land
This is in 1993
The land developers find 155 bodies
Like some horror movie
They take the bodies and cremate them
toss them into a mass grave
These women
most of them just young pregnant
or mentally handicapped “socially dysfunctional”
They washed clothes and sewed
Weren’t allowed to talk
It started in 1767
30,000 women
most never allowed to leave again
Not one eye blinking
Not one word raised
for 200 years
It took a land deal
And the invention of cheap washing machines
Starting today, every poem will be written as it is posted. So each poem will be unedited and posted as soon as it is done.
Wish me luck.
And be kind!
For the rest of the month I'm going to write a poem about a historical event that happened on that day as well as using the word of the day for the title.
Scratch-off (the last Magdelene Asylum closes 1996) 9/25
This is how it happens :
These nuns sell some land
This is in 1993
The land developers find 155 bodies
Like some horror movie
They take the bodies and cremate them
toss them into a mass grave
These women
most of them just young pregnant
or mentally handicapped “socially dysfunctional”
They washed clothes and sewed
Weren’t allowed to talk
It started in 1767
30,000 women
most never allowed to leave again
Not one eye blinking
Not one word raised
for 200 years
It took a land deal
And the invention of cheap washing machines
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